NEW YORK—Consumers of local broadcast news continue to deem it as a valuable source of information—whether it’s political races, local sports teams or weather—regardless of accessing it on their TVs ...

Across the country, the kinds of budget cuts that have decimated newspapers over the years are now slicing into local TV news stations. A trend of TV news layoffs “is only just the beginning,” one ...

The news media landscape has undergone seismic shifts in the past few decades, but one platform that has remained more constant than most is local television news. Perhaps this is why the Reuters ...

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As pro sports teams’ engagements with TV station groups explode into a historic search for a successor to the pay-TV distribution model, they’re generating a wealth of promising options with one ...

Major local TV station owner Sinclair Inc. says it has been conducting merger talks for several months with rival E.W. Scripps. In an SEC filing, the company said it had acquired 8% of Scripps Class A ...

Local TV news is on an upward trend in terms of trust as an “unbiased” news source. In Q4 2025, it outpaced broadcast network news and social media, which are declining, Civic Science reports. In this ...

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